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[MIDA]

Hello, long time no post! I have two clients who, over time have changed their mind about what the domain should be. Not the best idea to keep hoping domains but I suppose no real harm done. However, both have kept the old domains active for email as they don't want to bother changing email accounts for a variety of reasons.

They had a scenario like:

www.firstdomain.com (site lived here and Google indexed it - still in google - hosting set up with email accounts)
www.seconddomain.com (site now lives here and all new links point to it)

or

www.firstdomain.com (site lives here and email lives here)
www.seconddomain.com (uses this easier domain to point to site and get links to site but this one is an alias)

What is the best way to handle multiple domains where the old domain can not be a 301 redirect, will google find this confusing if sites are moving, and links are pointing to an alias not the actual site?

Is there a "bad" way to do this so Google thinks there is duplicate content other than acutally having two copies of the site?

Thanks!

[torka]

Why can't they do a 301 redirect?

--Torka

[Jill]

You can still host email on aliased or redirected domains. They need to do the 301's ASAP!

[MIDA]

You can still host email on aliased or redirected domains. They need to do the 301's ASAP!

Ah, that's what I needed to know, I'll have their web dude make a few changes. All these domain issues, new, old, alias, redirected, add-on, sub, etc.. I need a cheat sheet!